Saturday Sayings

So we are in day 25 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge.  Today I just want to share some of the favorite things my children have said through the years:

Upon us telling our oldest son that we were expecting our third child, oldest son says, "I don't want a new one, I want to keep Joseph!"

Upon us telling our oldest three that we were expecting our youngest child, "But I don't want a new one, I want to keep Nathan!"

Both boys would have been about 4 years old at the time these statements were made.  They both honestly believed that adding another child to the family meant that one had to leave.  Now how they were positive they were the one that would be kept and the younger one would be the one to go, I am not sure.  However, they eventually did okay.  I don't know if it is because I had three sons and then our only daughter or if it is something else; but we never had the out and out sibling rivalry (or whatever you want to call it) where the older one resents the younger one. In fact, we had the opposite problem - they loved their new sibling too much.  I had to be on constant guard that they did not carry off the youngest sibling (especially when said youngest was an infant).  

If you ever have heard the expression, "Kids say the darndest things", well it definitely applies in my case with my children.  My children are not afraid to speak their mind and say what they think, wonder or just feel like saying at any given time. I hope you will tune in next Saturday to hear more "Saturday Sayings".  Not that these things were said on a Saturday, but it just means I am sharing them on Saturdays.